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Welcome to my Hobby Site!

This WEB site is essentially a junk yard of my personal tinkering. I've written and ported a variety of Unix-based open source programs, many of which you can find in my ports collection.

Many years of annoyance by poorly designed and poorly supported proprietary systems has made me a strong proponent of open standards and open source efforts.

Very few commercial software packages allow the user a choice of operating systems or hardware platforms to run it on, despite the fact that cross-platform development is now relatively easy.

This should not be taken as a condemnation of all commercial software. There are many examples of high quality commercial software available at a reasonable price.

Where there's genuine competition, the free market leads to great value for consumers. Unfortunately, many software niches are dominated by virtual monopolies, and open source appears to be the only alternative, especially for those who don't want to maintain multiple computers.

Open standards and open source software make it possible for users to freely choose their software, their operating system, and their hardware.

In recent years, the open source software base has come of age. It is now possible for the average computer user to do everything they need on the hardware of their choice, using free open source operating systems such as BSD, Linux, and OpenSolaris, and free open source applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, etc.

One of the goals of this site is to help those who are new to Unix/POSIX programming and open source software. The information here is meant to help you understand what Unix and POSIX are, as well as the motivation behind Unix, POSIX, and other open standards.

FreeBSD ports and MacPorts

I maintain a number of ports for FreeBSD and MacPorts. On this site, you will find development versions which are not yet committed to the official ports collections. Feedback is appreciated from anyone using the development ports.